in the oregon piece, there’s a reference to the group’s temp leader- Jason Patrick of Bonaire. Dunno if this fella’s involvement has been discussed yet here, but it seems interesting.
Most interesting to me is what was in this piece abt his past connection with Larry O’Neal.http://www.macon.com/news/local/community/houston-peach/article56996848.h
That article says O’Neal gave him a personalized visit of Capitol proceedings, and he was called hero by some during snowpocalype.
but not knowing his state of mental health, the question remains:
could anything more have been done to peacefully dismiss the dangers of this man’s anti-government agenda?
why did armed rebellion have such allure?
are committee hearings that boring 😕

I mentioned it a few days ago in the comments to the Morning Reads. You would think that, as this site’s unofficial chief legal correspondent, the powers that be would go “hey, ACP’s a great looking guy who has got his finger on the pulse of this state! Let’s write about this in further detail!” But noooooooo, here I sit languishing in the comments without the six figure blogging salary I deserve.

Yall need to see the latest in tbe Trump twittet war with Megan. He calls her a Bimbo and posts a pic of her in some kind of black lengerie and high heels! Now, I don’t find her attractive at all so all I see is her is some contorted pose that makes it look like she’s in need of a chiropractor! Hysterical!

Mitt Romney lost women voters by a margin of 12 points in 2012. Now we have a guy who very likely could be our nominee calling a well respected news reporter a bimbo. That gap only increases when he says stupid stuff like that. It’s sad to watch my party and any chance of stopping Hillary slowly crumble away every day.

Her irrelevant/dumb debate question plus her photo layout equal “bimbo.” If a serious journalist/interviewer such as Martha Raddatz did the same thing I would call her the same name. Also I would not confine the term to females.

What I dont get is what sick satisfaction people get from judging others based on appearance and expression of sexuality. Particularly when it comes to women. If either Ms. Kelly or Ms. Trump wants to pose nude or in lingerie, does that somehow diminish their intelligence or take away their humanity?

What is it within people who use terms like bimbo and slut as slurs against women that makes them feel superior? Is your life that sad and empty that you must find away to tear down others in that manner?

Reading comprehension ain’t your strong suit, Eiger. I didn’t call her a bimbo, Trump did. I just said I don’t think she’s attractive.

January 28, 2016 2:56 PM

gcp

You missed the first part of my equation. Read it again. As far as I know his wife has not been a debate moderator.

January 28, 2016 11:05 AM

The Eiger

You and Donald Trump are why Republicans are going to gift wrap this election for Hillary Clinton. Congratulations. Don’t ever say you haven’t accomplished something in your life.

January 28, 2016 11:11 AM

Calypso

The Eiger, I agree with your comment 100%

January 28, 2016 11:17 AM

gcp

Any voter (male or female) that cast a general or primary ballot based on this issue deserve exactly what they get.

January 28, 2016 11:55 AM

The Eiger

You are right and what they will get is President Hillary Clinton.

January 28, 2016 1:13 PM

xdog

Let’s see if I can follow. First Trump was merely running a vanity campaign, then he was just a joke, then this or that outrageous remark of his would send him back to real estate, then the serious candidates would chop him down on policy, and now he’ll be the ruination of the gop nationally.

While I’m not ready to declare him the sure-fire nominee, I will say that counting him out against Clinton or anyone else ignores what he’s accomplished so far. He hasn’t missed yet.

January 28, 2016 11:55 AM

Andrew C. Pope

I’m ready to count him out against Clinton. Trump’s success in the primaries can be attributed to the fact that he has a significant name recognition advantage over his competition. While people who follow politics are able to ID Marco Rubio, the average voter isn’t. They can, however, easily recognize Donald Trump. The added name recognition gives him a larger platform from which to toss red meat to the base. If Jim Gilmore said that we should build a wall and have Mexico pay for it, no one would cover it. Because no one knows who Jim Gilmore is. If Rick Santorum said that we should ban all Muslims from the US, no one would cover it. Because no one cares about Rick Santorum. People care about Trump because he’s a celebrity and has been one since the 80s. When he says something crazy, people go “did you hear the crazy thing Trump said?” Then the news media runs stories on the crazy thing he said and starts talking about how it will be the end of the campaign. Then polls come out saying that his support hasn’t changed. So the news media runs stories about the polls. When that dies down, he says another stupid thing and starts the cycle anew. Before you know it, you’re passed out, half-naked in an Iowa snow drift and Trump is accepting the Republican nomination.

In a general, there is no name ID advantage. Unlike Cruz, Rubio, Christie… Hilary Clinton may be one of the most recognizable people in the entire country and has been since 1992. She also has a greater ability to appeal to moderates and independents seeing as she hasn’t been on camera spouting racist diatribes about Latinos or Muslims. Trump has burned his bridge back to the center. He knows it. The GOP knows it. The only problem for the GOP is whether or not he’s pulled the rest of the field too far right to be successful in the general.

January 28, 2016 12:17 PM

Andrew C. Pope

So being a bimbo requires serving as a debate moderator. I strongly suggest you consult a dictionary.

January 28, 2016 12:19 PM

gcp

Never said it was a requirement

January 28, 2016 12:39 PM

Andrew C. Pope

You said that her debate question to Trump, when combined with her GQ photoshoot “equal ‘bimbo.'” When someone pointed out that Trump’s latest wife has done a fair share of photoshoots in various states of undress, you said she wan’t a bimbo because “as far as I know his wife has not been a debate moderator.” So, your calculus for one’s bimbo-dom clearly requires a history of debate moderation.

The alternative is that somebody decided to press Donald Trump on the fact that he has run a campaign completely devoid of substance. That made Trump mad which, in turn, seems to have made you mad. Instead of developing a substantive response to the question, he decided to stoop to childish insults. You, apparently too eager to please the Donald, chose to call her a bimbo as well.

January 28, 2016 1:12 PM

gcp

You equate actions, characteristics and statements with requirements which is an argument I never made. That I must be of certain age to get a drivers license is a requirement. There are no “bimbo”
requirements but there are subjective observations that result in a conclusion.

The implication I support Trumpet as a candidate is incorrect. I have also made the argument that he has run a largely issueless campaign. Maybe if Kelly would ask him policy/issue questions voters and viewers would all learn he is “devoid of substance.”

January 28, 2016 2:18 PM

Benevolus

I mean really… Trump is the cause of the dumb questions because of all the ridiculous things he says. Then when he is asked about those things he gets all bratty. If he wants to be treated with respect he needs to earn it.

January 28, 2016 11:18 AM

Andrew C. Pope

To be fair, they’re all guilty of being bratty. Remember the reaction to the CNBC debate?

How dare you point out that Ben Carson’s tax plan doesn’t make sense mathmatecally!

How dare you point out Carly Fiorina lied about the Planned Parenthood videos!

How dare you point out that Ted Cruz has a tax plan inspired by European economies!

January 28, 2016 6:56 PM

xdog

The whole charter school business is a jumble to me. I understand the political aspect of it but so much seems to be about turf and credit and so little about getting decent results in the classroom.

I read the press release from Deal’s office and clicked through to the NACSA site. Guess what? The authorization practices of Georgia DoE got a perfect score too, a fact not mentioned in Deal’s statement, an omission I consider strange given that Deal picks the DoE members and his name is all over their site. Of course the answer is that the state commission is Deal’s personal baby and by God he has proof that it’s perfectly aligned with the methods of at least one group of authorizers.

This is school choice week, and if I hadn’t been otherwise occupied I guess we should probably have a front page post or three on that. Maybe tomorrow if I get a few minutes.

That said, there’s one key component about charter schools that are different from traditional schools: If they fail, they close.

I recently joined the board of one of Georgia’s larger Charter Schools. I’ll write more about that/them when I get around to the post. But as a director, I’m keenly aware of one thing first: Our students have to do better then they were doing before they come to us or the school will cease to exist. And that’s how it should be.

I am really curious to know what other world leaders are thinking about all this.
Putin- Licking his chops?
Merkel- Horrified?
Cameron- In denial?
Hollande- Pre-emptively insulted?
Xi- Preparing for tariffs?
Abe- Preparing for retirement?

Time to dust off Mencken again. While I don’t subscribe to many of his views, and please note that when he is referring to men voting that this was just prior to the ratification of the 19th amendment, he did have a way of reducing politics to the lowest common denominator:

No one in this world, so far as I know—and I have researched the records for years, and employed agents to help me—has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.
‘Notes On Journalism’ in the Chicago Tribune (19 September 1926)

When a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is the fact that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or even of comprehending any save the most elemental — men whose whole thinking is done in terms of emotion, and whose dominant emotion is dread of what they cannot understand. So confronted, the candidate must either bark with the pack or be lost… All the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre — the man who can most adeptly disperse the notion that his mind is a virtual vacuum. The Presidency tends, year by year, to go to such men. As democracy is perfected, the office represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart’s desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
Baltimore Sun (26 July 1920)

Yup. Lots of focus on Trump and his antics but hardly any on the imbeciles who stand with him, which is to say, almost a majority of republican voters. I’m not sure how much longer the charade can sustain itself….the message is muddled and demographics are against them.

I’m not sure how that’s going to play out, but I’ll play devil’s (or Hillary’s) advocate just because.

Everybody in government has a personal email account. Those with security clearance have access to a secure system with is apparently a PITA.

If someone sends you an email that is not marked “classified”, it’s not really your fault. You can’t stop it.

If someone sends you something that is not marked “classified” and you don’t recognize it as classified, you may even respond to it outside of the secure system. This would be the same whether it was a private email server or Google or Yahoo.

The point is, the private server isn’t really the issue. If they were communicating insecurely when they shouldn’t have been, that is a problem. But that would have been the case either with or without the private server.

I am not quite sure how State’s email servers work, but from my familiarity with the email systems at DOJ and DoD, the system will block any emails containing classified information from being sent to unsecured email addresses. Now, of course, information that has been sent can later be deemed classified, but Hillary’s stance has been that she never sent/received emails that were marked CLASSIFIED at the time of transmission.

The Benghazi template is spending $30M over four years on seven more investigations. She’ll campaigning for a second term by then. The e-mails will be a relevant to that campaign as Benghazi is to this one.

There has been years of dirty deeds to nail both Clintons on. If the whack job leaders of terrorist nations can roll out thousands of backers while practicing genocide and folks believe that by destroying ancient churches, exterminating 6 million Jews and tearing down confederate monuments and say it never existed or it is for purity, it is for sure probable Hillary can find some minions here and in high places. Beyond the pale.